/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
Added 2021-04-27 06:00:02 +0000 UTCOn Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents.
A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing the underlying situation to worse. We talk to the author, Fabio Luis, about cases across the region, including the election in Ecuador and Venezuela's disaster, to Bolivia's coup and Argentina's "path of least resistance". How important is regional integration and what does an alternative socialist vision entail? And we ponder a sad question: is the dream of development and modernisation over?
Readings:
- Power and Impotence: A History of South America Under Progressivism (1998-2016), Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Haymarket
- /93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka Bungacast
Comments
It's a really interesting question to what degree it's possible to "opt out" of capital accumulation like Luis seems to be suggesting.
Blake
2021-04-27 23:27:24 +0000 UTC
